Chapter 205 The Real Fisherman
There are countless people in this world who died from eating poisonous mushrooms by mistake, but if you ask who is the most famous...it must be Gautama Siddhartha.
That is the World Honored One Sakyamuni!
He ate the last meal of sandalwood tree ears offered by the blacksmith Cunda in Kushinajala. After being poisoned, he walked to Nirvana between the two Shaluo trees beside the Bati River.
When Sakyamuni passed away, the twin trees suddenly bloomed with white flowers, which is also known as "the twin forests enter and die".
And the sandalwood tree ear is a kind of magic fungus unique to India, which is a highly poisonous mushroom!
There are more than 400 types of mushrooms known to be relatively toxic in the world, and if magic fungi are added, there will be even more.
Every year, little wizards are poisoned by eating mushrooms by mistake, so as an herbal medicine teacher, Sprout must teach students how to distinguish between poisonous and non-toxic mushrooms.
Dean Thomas of Gryffindor raised his hand, and he asked a question that he would not have been able to ask without twelve years of cerebral thrombosis:
"Professor, since these poisonous mushrooms are so dangerous, why not destroy them? Otherwise, there will be a steady stream of wizards eating by mistake..."
He accidentally ate a hallucinogenic mushroom before, took a swallowtail dog as a witch, and kissed it... In the end, he was bitten three times and was forced to drink rabies inhibitors for a week.
"Because these mushrooms grow, not for wizards to eat!" Professor Sprout laughed angrily:
"Those poisonous fungi are important raw materials for many potions, and even the antibiotics abused by Muggles are also extracted from fungi."
"And..." Professor Sprout said seriously:
"Most types of mushrooms are symbiotic bacteria. They need to live in symbiosis with magic plants, which is an important part of helping plants live better... By the way, this is the focus of the final exam."
Hearing the professor's reminder, the little wizard took a quill and brushed to remember again.
Prof. Sprout summed up a host of benefits, emphasizing at the end:
"Although poisonous mushrooms are poisonous, they still have many important uses. In the future, when you see mushrooms, don't destroy them intentionally, or even step on them to death. This is also respect for magical plants."
Professor Sprout led the students through the mushroom fields, and kept introducing the mushrooms of different colors. When passing by a piece of red mushroom, she reminded emphatically:
"This is a laughing mushroom. After eating it, it will cause hallucinations and do some strange things. The main manifestations are mental abnormalities, dancing and singing, laughing wildly, and hallucinations."
"The most amazing thing is..." Professor Sprout said with a smile: "This kind of laughing mushroom is only for wizards, and other magical creatures are fine to eat."
Everyone is staring at the laughing mushroom, is it so magical? !
"Okay, next I will take you to collect the jumping toadstools. Now, who can tell me what characteristics the jumping toadstools have?"
Hermione wanted to raise her hand to answer this question, but suddenly found that Rove bent down quietly, using her body as a cover, and then secretly pulled out the magic mushroom.
Rove is going to pick some mushrooms and plant them in his box.
The girl rolled her eyes, smirked and moved to one side, fully exposing her vision.
Of course Professor Sprout saw this, she said loudly.
"Mr Scamander, will you answer this question?"
Rove turned around in a hurry and found that Professor Sprout was looking at him, and he got the stolen goods on the spot. The young man was somewhat embarrassed and said:
"The beating toadstool has a keen sense of the surroundings. Once it detects that someone wants to pick it, it will quickly jump and escape."
"That's right, five points for Hufflepuff." Professor Sprout raised his eyebrows and said, "You still have to concentrate. After class, you stay and help fertilize the magic mushrooms."
Rove glanced at Hermione, the little girl suppressed a smile, the corners of her mouth raised, and then quickly pressed down.
"Toadstools can jump, so you need to use the fungus net." Professor Sprout pointed to the net not far away, and said:
"One for each, fifteen points will be awarded to the wizard who collects the most jumping toadstools!"
The students all ran to get the fungus-catching nets, for fear of being slow to get the worst nets.
The corners of Hermione's mouth curled up, she turned sideways, stared at Rove's side face, and said triumphantly, "Have you been caught stealing magic mushrooms?"
"Do you dare to bet? Hermione." Rove challenged, "A new bet."
Hermione wanted to refuse, after all, she had just lost, and now she was helping Rove make the potion for free, and she also had a longer memory.
But in the end it was really unbearable, she couldn't help but said: "What are you betting on?"
"Whoever collects the most jumping toadstools... wins!" Rove said softly, "If you lose, stay and help me fertilize the magic mushrooms.
If I lose, you won't have to brew potions for free, and I'll pay you as well, which is the same as Shirley's salary... Do you dare to bet? "
Hermione thought for a while, and said, "You can bet, but you are not allowed to use your strange magic."
"Okay, I definitely don't use any magic." Rove smiled, and he never took revenge overnight.
Everyone got the fungus net, only Harry and Ron stayed where they were, whispering together.
Professor Sprout frowned, she walked over and said sternly, "What are you talking about!"
Harry was taken aback, he turned around and lied hastily:
"Sorry, professor, Ron and I... were discussing that mushroom. You just said that it would cause diarrhea after eating it, right? Ron didn't say that he would faint, so we started arguing."
Ron nodded in agreement, as if the truth was what Harry said.
"You have misremembered, Mr. Weasley, this is a chicken stomach mushroom, after eating it, you will indeed have constant diarrhea..." Professor Sprout said softly.
"Will you die if you eat too much?" Ron asked.
"No." Professor Sprout eyed them suspiciously.
"Okay, hurry up and grab the toadstools, everyone else has already started!"
"Okay, Professor, let's do it now!" Seeing Sprout turn around, Ron whispered again, "Do you really want to use it, Harry?"
"No one can die anyway." Harry gritted his teeth.
To prevent the jumping toadstools from escaping, they are grown in a glass house.
When the students lined up to go in, the group of toadstools felt the ground shaking, and they drilled out of the soil one after another and jumped towards the ceiling.
Pieces of toadstools look like spores and flying red umbrellas.
Fortunately, there is glass all around, so they can't escape, they can only jump around.
Rove is holding a fungus-catching net. The spacing between the grids is neither too big nor too small. Smaller toadstools can move through the grids and come and go freely, but toadstools that are too big will be caught.
This is like fishing, indirect protection of fry.
Rove caught a toadstool in the net, and it landed on the big net, constantly jumping up and hitting.
Rove reached out and grabbed the jumping toadstool, it jumped alive on his palm...the whole body of the mushroom is pink, very beautiful.
Under Hermione's astonished gaze, Rove threw away the fungus trap, opened the black leather case, and took out a special fishing rod.
A true angler is one who can catch... non-fish creatures anywhere!
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